A homophobic day laborer who told cops he stabbed a bystander to death near a Queens subway station because he thought the elderly man was blowing kisses at him hung around the grisly crime scene to make sure the man was dead, authorities revealed on Wednesday.

After repeatedly plunging an 8-inch knife into Ever Orozco, 69, Monday afternoon, Steven Torres, 22, at first started to flee but then changed his mind and returned to the sidewalk on 90th Street in Elmhurst where the man lay bleeding under an elevated train station, court papers revealed.

“I don’t get involved with anybody. I don’t know why anyone has to get involved with me. I was going to run to the train station but I came back to make sure he was down because if he stayed alive he
won’t be worth d- -k,” he said in the statements made public at his criminal court arraignment in Queens.

“I live on the street,” he told cops. “I was looking for an apartment. A f—ot appeared on 90 and Roosevelt making sexual gestures. I got upset because he opened the door to his car. I took out my knife
and poke him four or five times.

“Then I ran but returned to see what happened but they told me, ‘Run, you already killed him, the police is coming.’ So I ran, and they were chasing me, more fa–ots until they reached me. They threatened me that when they lock me up they are going to rape me because of this.”

Torres, who lives in the Bronx, was charged with second-degree murder in the slaying of Orozco, who had just dropped his wife off for a doctor’s appointment.

Orozco was stabbed in the throat and chest. He was rushed to Elmhurst Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

At the time of Orozco’s slaying, Torres was wanted in another daylight stabbing last week on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, sources said.

In that case, Torres allegedly knifed an unidentified 47-year-old man in the arm on Stanton Street about 1:30 p.m. Thursday.

After his arrest, Torres allegedly claimed that the Manhattan victim — who is a friend of Torres’ brother — called him “sweet candy” in Spanish and blew him a kiss, sources said.

Charges are pending in that case.

Torres faces up to 25 years to life in prison if he’s convicted.

Despite Torres’ homophobic vitriol, a spokesman for Queens DA Richard Brown said there was not enough evidence to sustain a hate crime charge.